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430 p., illus. + one fold-out map. One of 1000 copies. Hardcover Very good condition; purple spine faded
430 p., illus. + one fold-out map. Presentation copy to Harry Quigg, signed by the editor on 11/23/51. Hardcover Good condition; top of spine chipped
In-8 gr. (mm. 276x176), tela coeva, pp. (4),VI,(2),134, con 19 tavole in bianco e nero fuori testo. Prima edizione. In buono stato (good copy).
64 pages. Features: Nice ad for the 1939 Oldsmobile Six inside front cover; News digest includes topics such as "Appeasement and its difficulties", "Why British Opinion in Changing", "Germany's Colonial Ambitions", "The Statecraft of Equivalents", and "Italy's Clash with France"; Met Life one-page photo ad entitled "A Day in the Life of (sales agent) Donald Martin"; Neville Chamberlain, World Champion of Peace - nicely photo-illustrated article (little did he know how wrong he would soon be proven to be); Reckless Lady (short story); With Fire (short story); What the Eye Doesn't See (short story); Arctic Madness - photo-illustrated article tells the Baffin Island tale of the death of a white fur trader - with photos of RCMP Staff Sergeant A.H. Joy, Loodloo, Innoyah, Petoot, Ahteetah, Nookudlah and Ooroorengnak; Babiche Walking - wonderful article on snowshoeing (snow-shoeing); The Garden Next Door (short story); The Mysterious Affair at Styles (part 4 of 5 of this Agatha Christie story); One-page Colgate ad features illustrations of the Dionne Quints; Vintage two-page Magic Baking Powder ad features the New York World's Fair; Kellogg's All-Bran ad features Mutt and Jeff comic; Movie news with photos of Virginia Bruce and Florence George; Photo of Miss Brenda Fraser in Woodbery soap ad; Scott's Emulsion ad features Uncle Dan comic; Fashion illustrations; Half-page Italy tourism ad, sponsored by Italian Line, Limited; Pond's cold cream ad features photo of Marjorie Fairchild; Are You a Man's Girl? - with helpful scorecard(!); It Isn't What You Say - advice for speaking better; Sport Suppers - recipes; Half-page colour ad for Canadian fish; Curve Control - corsets, foundation garments and the female shape; Photos of Barbara Stanwyck in Lux soap ad; Small St. Petersburg (Florida) photo-ad says '12,000 Canadians" choose it; World Quotes; Back cover colour Coke ad shows bottle beside open book and reading glasses, with inset illustration of vintage six-pack case; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Nice one-page color ad for Lincoln cars features a red four-door with suicide doors; One-page color ad promotes Florida vacations; Classy color one-page ad for Mallory Hats; One-page photo ad for North American Aviation Inc. features their Navion 4-passenger plane; Hoover - "U.S. Communists are better organized than any fifth column Hitler had."; Senator Claude Pepper; Hawaii - struggle for control; Centralia Coal Co. Mine disaster at Wamac, Illinois; Attractive Coke ad shows three young office ladies eating their lunches in office; Color Camel cigarette ad features champion fisher Mrs. Dorothy Allan Newstead of Georgia; British prepare to turn Palestine over to the United Nations; Awesome one-page color Chevrolet ad features big chrome grill over flat black background; The French Four-Year Plan; Where are the POWS? - Two million missing Germans captured by the Soviets; Disastrous food situation in the Ruhr; Finnish physiotherapist Dr. Felix Kersten releases his analysis and observations of Himmler's personality; Color ad for 1947 Ford cars; Violence in Formosa; Photos of Australian girls bidding farewell to American sailors on the Wooloomooloo wharf in Sydney; Communism in Franc - illusions and realities; Jeep ad shows it doing utility jobs; Brief obituaries for Johnny Evers, Charles S. Whitman and Edith Craig; Examining Hiroshima victims 16 months later; Uranium 233; Barbara Ward - First Lady of the Economist; Airlines - Eddie Rickenbacker of Eastern; Photo of Horace T. Pentecost and his one-man "Hoppi-Copter" helicopter; Glorious color ad for Chrysler cars at apple blossom time; Henry Hazlitt writes on High Taxes vs. Incentive and Revenue; Photo of world record swimmer Joe Verdeur; Wonderfully-illustrated Fruehauf Trailers ad features the Minnehaha natural spring water and their loading docks on wheels; Erich Leinsdorf; Nice two-page ad for Newsweek; Nice color ad for Venus drawing pencils; Color-photo ad for Corby's whiskey; Nostalgic ad for P.I.E. - Pacific Intermountain Express (truck lines); Color-photo Studebaker ad inside back cover; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. Age-toning to contents. A worthy vintage copy. Book
82 pages. Features: Nice RKO photo ad advertises 'I Remember Mama', 'Tycoon', 'If You Knew Susie' and 'Magic Town'; 1-page ad for Philco entertainment products; Brother Jazz - The Story of Eddie Condon - with color photos; Affair's End (fiction); How to Have Ancestors; They're Still Expendable - article and photos explain how unemployment, small-business failures and layoffs are hitting veterans harder than the rest of the nation; Fever (fiction); He Clicked for 30 Years - Highlights of the career of photographer George William Harris - article with photos; The Five Dresden Angels (fiction); Man Running (fiction); Demon from the Doldrums - Nature's most destructive force is the West Indian hurricane; Nice 1-page color-photo ad for International Harvester Industrial Power features photo of a large diesel crawler in a Florida limestone quarry; Nice 1-page color ad for Ford cars; Nice vintage 1-page color ad for Kraft Cheeses; Western Electric 1-page color ad shows telephone repairman talking housewife and children at front door; Ballantine Ale 1-page color ad; Half-page 2-color ad for Fruehauf Trailers; Pennsylvania Railroad nice 1-page color ad shows comforable scene on-board; Fall Guise - article with six color photos of men's fall college fashions; Nice 1-page DeSoto car ad; A Good Whipping (fiction); Fantastic 1-page 2-color ad for the movie 'Body and Soul' starring John Garfield, Lilli Palmer and Hazel Brooks; Nice 1-page color Budweiser ad displays several illustrated plates; Goldwyn ad features colour photo of Danny Kaye; Rislone and Karbout ad features cute color photo of cigarette girl; 1-page ad for Gillette one-piece razors; Smiling Girl (fiction); Nice color 1-page ad for Hamm's Beer; One-page ad for American Overseas Airlines; Luckky Strike ad on back cover includes nice color illustration entitled 'Bright Tobacco' by Fletcher Martin. Couple of chips from top of front cover. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
126 pages. Short Stories: The Girl in the Sentry Box; A Touch of Scandal; The Hermit; The Turning Point. Articles: What Makes Me Laugh; Adventures of the Mind, #48 - The Act of Language; The Happy Orphans of Metera - Greek home for babies of unwed mothers; Master of Movie Horror - William Castle; Red China Against Russia?; They're Off - and the World is Watching - the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination; Norman Rockwell - My Adventures as an Illustrator, Part VI - I Tried to be a Playboy. Serials: Moon Pilot (part 1 of 3); Night Without End (part 5 of 8). Ads: Phone ad features Winterland, Florida; Florsheim Shoes; Cracker Barrel Cheese; Ford Falcon Wagons (2 color pages); Oldsmobile (Olds) 1960; Hotpoint stoves; Campbell's Tomato Rice and Cream of Vegetable Soups; Pontiac Bonneville (night illustration); Dial Soap; 1960 Chrysler - nice light-blue New Yorker at circus; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Spaghetti; Avis Rent-a-Car; Grandma Moses flower seeds and Borden's Instant Coffee; Caterpillar - pushing coal at a power plant; Borden's Chocolate Ice Cream; GM Diesel - two illustrated pages; Air France - featuring gourmet food; 1960 Chevrolet Trucks; Sylvania TVs - with Arthur Godfrey photo; Royal Crown Soda - young lady in rain gear; The Metropolitcan 1500 car; International Trucks; Mayflower Movers; Ladies' Home Journal; Renault Dauphine; Pan-Am color ad with Paris photo; GMAC; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover boasts they are "Air-Softened". Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
126 pages. Features: Nice photo ad for the 1960 Dodge Dart station wagon(cream-coloured); 2.5 page (with foldout) ad with yummy ice cream photos, sponsored by the American Dairy Association; Photo of Paul L. Stover, of Stover Studio, in Pennzoil ad; Bassett furniture ad; Greata two-page color B.F. Goodrich ad includes illustrations of many contemporary shoe styles, including the popular P.F. Flyers; Coke ad features photo of lady spraying man with ose; The day Ike Snubbed Me - by Harry Truman (part 1 of 3); Brothers Peter and Paul are adopted; Lorna Doone cookie ad; Great photo of kids in Log Cabin syrup ad; Two-page color Kodak camera ad shows eight of their 1960 products; Nice illustrated ad for the 1960 Pontiac Bonnevile (yellow) beside large ship; Dentistry goes Hi-Fi - Dr. Wallace Gardner uses an Audiac to help his patients remain at ease; Boating Feature with lovely color fashion photos; Nice one-page photo of Bill France, president of NASCAR; Color-photo-illustrated feature on boats; Water Traffic Cop - Sgt. Roy Janson of Fort Lauderdale, FL; The Tinker family of Ocala Florida goes afloat; Pepsi ad shows couple leaning on trunk of car; Gordon Hill - boat test driver; What is Prejudice?; Two-page Chrysler ad; America's top golf pros pick the most difficult holes in the U.S.; One-page color-photo ad for the (pink) 1960 Rambler custom cross country station wagon; George Nelson designs unusual clocks; Abby Dalton - a television original; Nice 7up ad inside back cover shows formally dressed young couple on swing; Back cover color-photo Camel cigarette ad shows Graeme Howard Jr., Yale Law 1960, smoking with his feet up in law library; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
Facsimile of the rare London 1609 first English edition. 12mo. Original leather grained cloth binding. Fine copy. The first description in English of the continental interior of the Southern and Gulf states and of the discovery of the Mississippi River These facsimiles are the most affordable way to study, own, and enjoy such rare Americana. NW29. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
85, 16 [ads] pages. Many black and white reproductions of photos. Features: "As I ran for the cliff a shell struck the truck just behind me, blowing it to pieces" - Arthur H. Griswold on the horrors of Gallipoli; Capturing Wild Elephants Alive, by St. Nihal Singh - including *amazing* photos of the Maharajah of Mysore's hunt; Tales of the Service - part VI - my smuggler-catching adventures, by G.W. Hindmarch, a retired customs and excise officer in the Shetland Islands; Behind the Scenes in Russia - part II - Robert Wilton reports on the war in Russia with many excellent photos including a German propaganda sheet (in Russian) which blames England for the war; Queer Fixes - trapped by rattlers, and 'twixt bear and rapids; In Unknown British Guiana - part II - many great photos; The Hold-up at the "Gem" - a tale from Lordsburg, New Mexico; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - part VI, by Fanny Bullock Markman and William Hunter Workman - with many super photos; How "Big Walsh" Held His Own - a mining experience in Bolivia; The Carrier-Pigeon in Wartime - many excellent photos; German Raids on the Cables - the first true account of Germany's daring efforts to cut Britain's underseas cable systems, with photos; The Falling Bucket - adventure involving a Bolivian silver mine; The Quaintest Horse-Race in the World - the annual Palio of Siena, Italy; Amazing photos of Mooseback riding in Rainy Lake, Ontario!. Sewer cleaning with an alligator in Fort Meade, Florida. Wonderful full-page WWI ad by AT&T with caption "How Belgium Stemmed the Tide". Clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear. A well-preserved copy of this fascinating issue. Book
Pages 401-440. Features: The Truth About Those "Undress" Shows - where is the modern stage fashion leading us? - argues for stricter censorship over stage 'fashions' - with reproductions of scandalous photos; The Man Who Hadn't a Chance (story); What Did Christ Mean? - who are the meek and how can they inherit the earth?; Mother Love - an appealing little story; How the Cup is Won - secrets of the great vitory final by the Captain of Cardiff's winning team last season - article with photo; A Stranger in the Wild - a January nature story; Making the "Stars" Twinkle - some facts about filmland's unseen army, the people who do the behind-the-scenes work - article with photos, including "Our Gang" kids and an aerial photo of the MGM lot; Photo of 'land yacht' (early RV); Photo of world champion unicyclist Walter Nilsson riding on top of the Cheops pyramid; Adventure - a short story; Wit of the Week; Fishing With a Kite! - Photo-illustrated article about queer ways of catching the ocean's finny monsters, including photo of Rex Ingram with a huge fish he caught off Florida; Angel Esquire (continued); The World's Largest Building Society - The Halifax Building Society - started in a coffee house and now has capital of 40 million pounds. Openings along coverfold. Clean six-inch opening to central portion of front cover and following several pages, apparently by an errant knife cut. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
232 pages. "From Keenan's earliest coaching days in junior hockey to his disastrous time with the Vancouver Canucks to his recent attempts to return to the NHL, Keenan takes an honest inside look at the most controversial coach in hockey history." - from dust jacket. Dust jacket in Brodart cover. Clean, bright and unmarked. Negligible wear. Beautiful copy. Nice gift for your favorite hockey fan. Book
92 pages. Features: Cover photo in restaurant L'addition at Lutece; The Battle of Forest Hills - conflicts over development; Up Against the Kitchen Wall - that's where the haute cuisine restaurants here are - featuring Lutece; Mao's China in 1972 - A Nostalgia for Yenan, 1935; The Five-Power World of Richard Nixon; Growing Up in the Forties; Psychedelic one-page color ad for Pennsylvania tourism features familiy of five; The Bower Family is featured in a photo ad for Gold Key Lake Estates; Why Daddy Rushes Home to Watch Batman - what happened when a kindergarten teacher suggested parents watch tv with their son; Photos of interior designs by David Laurance Roth; Just like Paris in the Spring - fashion sketches by Maning; One-page color-photo ad for the Marco Beach Hotel, Villas & Country Club, Florida; Many wonderful fashion ads. Three middle pages free from staples but present. Two-inch tape repair to back cover. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Milano, 1936, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 171/194 con numerose fotografie e tavole fotografiche. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
Mm 180x255 Brossura editoriale illustrata con lunghe alette, una delle quali riveste l'interno, 198 pagine con 11 illustrazioni e una cartina geografica fuori testo. Una lacuna al dorso, evidenti segni del tempo all'esterno e mende alla copertina, peraltro copia intonsa e in buono stato complessivo. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.
152 pages. Bibliography. Index. Illustrated in black and white. Map endpapers. A "dramatic account of the second Seminole War, enhanced by an awesome setting, which will engage and enlighten both the scholar of naval history and the armchair sailor." - dust jacket. Armorial bookplate on verso of front free endpaper, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket preserved in mylar. A quality copy. Book
Piacevolissima opera.<BR>Volume in-folio; legatura moderna in mezza pelle (mantenuti i piatti originali applicati sul nuovo cartonato); pp. 16 + 16 tavole incise all'acquaforte su carta pesante.<BR>Ogni foglio cm. 46 x 33 (alla battuta cm. 28 x 22).<BR>Consueto ingiallimento della carta; mende alle cuffie (in particolare la parte superiore del dorso staccata dal piatto anteriore per cm. 4); il margine delle prime due pagine è stato sottoposto a restauro professionale; un piccolo alone segna, senza disturbare, l'angolo interno inferiore delle 16 pagine iniziali e della prima tavola; ottime le condizioni delle altre tavole.<BR>La prima edizione di questa bella opera è del 1888.<BR>Questo il testo completo del frontispizio:<BR>"Frescos de Goya en la Iglesia de San Antonio de la Florida. Grabados al agua fuerte por D. José M. Galvan y Candela grabador del Deposito Hidrografico. Obra premiada con medalla de segunda clase en la Exposicion National de Bellas Artes de 1878. Texto por D. Juan De Dios De La Rada y Delgado precedido del informe dado acerca de esta obra por la Real Academia de San Fernando. Escrito por el Excmo. Sr. D. Pedro de Madrazo directo de la misma. Segunda Edicion.
92 pages. Features: Nice Mimeograph ad shows their duplicator in use in many military offices; Great Fairbanks, Morse & Co. ad shows sub sinking Japanese carrier with caption "The Speak a Language the Japs Understand"; One-page Boeing photo ad for the B-17 shows an Axis plane about to crash land; Marjorie Gestring marries - with photo of her; Brief obituaries for Mrs. Emma G.M. Fall, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Sir Edward Beatty, and Ben B. Lindsey; Dramatic Beech Aircraft one-page photo ad shows an AT-11 dropping bombs; Uncommon Cadillac ad shows their new M-5 tank (who knew Cadillac made tanks?); Fall of Gabes - Montgomery won on his biggest gamble; Major war coverage; Photo of US bombers attacking Japanese ship in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea; Aerial photo of Krupp Works bombed by RAF; Interesting photo of Japanese soldiers in Burma dancing with Geisha girls; Series of domestic rebukes to FDR; Photo of Fiorello H. La Guardia in uniform during WWI; Before and after photos of a Seattle meat market illustrate meat shortage; Buick ad shows large shells being manufactured; Great one-page color ad for the Vega Ventura aircraft; Photo in massive Douglas Aircraft factory at Oklahoma City which builds Skytrains; Photo of Greg Rice and his two-mile world's record run; Photo of sheep grazing in the Pasadena Rose Bowl(!); Photo of "Hit Parade" dance star Chinita; Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota; Canadian Club ad features color photos of Tarpon Springs, Florida Sponge-fishermen; Nice back cover color-photo ad for Chesterfield cigarettes features night photo of Merchant Mariners at sea; and much more. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Two Volumes bound in one: pp. 464; 276. Early inked ownership of N. K. Randall on title page. Damp stained. Age stained. Top edge of first few signatures chewed, without text loss. 225mm. Original full leather binding, very worn. Howes F200; Thomson 423; AI / SS 12424. "The text of the second volume had not appeared previously." - Graff 1356. Includes much useful and early infomation on Texas and Oregon. AMER BX 10
Madrid, Ediciones de Cultura Hispánica, 1963. 4to. menor: 126 pp. Cubiertas originales.
in-8°, 277 pages, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [AZ-3]
40 pages. Features: Dovetail Anchor Slot Co. photo ad inside front cover features photo of the Sunset Mausoleum at Berkeley, California; Can construction work be made safe?; Keeping up interestin accident prevention; Job precautions are the best safety tactics - article with great vintage illustrations; Underbidding in Florida is ruining business, says builder; The A.G.C. Safety Promotion Program; Accident control in construction work; National Safety Campaign under way; The contractor and the courts; Hawk Co. offers new incenerator; vintage Skilsaw ad; Latest prices of materials; construction activity this week; Sealed proposal announcements; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. These nostalgic topics and images are certain to please modern-day contractors. Magazine
Milano, 1955, stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 641/652 con fotografie, tavole fotografiche ed una cartina. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perchè ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “estratto” or “stralcio” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.
Features include: Cytology of Vanda Nellie Morley and Vanda Emma van Deventer; Commercial Vanda Cut-Flower Production in South Florida; Growing Vandas in Tree Fern; A New Species of Epistephium from Colombia; and Beginners' Handbook: The Cypripedium Tribe or Ladyslipper Orchids. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
Features include: A New Iconography of Venezuelan Orchids; Air-conditioning and Pest Control; A Greenhouse for Everyone; ABC of Phalaenopsis Growing; Beginning with Orchids in Florida; Collectors' Item: Oncidium onustum Lindley; Calanthes for the Hobbyist; Miltonias for the Amateur; Photographing Orchids Up Close; Try This Way with Odontoglossums; Orchid Classics (Pt IV): Remarks on the Cultivation of Tropical Orchidaceae; and Growing Orchids in the Home (Pt IV): A Window-Greenhouse in the Southwest. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book